Importing KMA files

[TONYBERNARD]

Roy, we ripped the songs from a disc through Windows Media Player then it becomes WMA File. Once I ripped it into my computer, I then tried to load it into songverter as a WMA Audio file and needed to convert to a WAV Audio file. Thats when I got the Bad File Log txt. My overall end result Im looking for is to have a WAV file. If you have another suggestion without using songverter I am open to it. However I would like to understand why this happens in Songverter. Thanks, Tony

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by TONYBERNARD

Roy, we ripped the songs from a disc through Windows Media Player then it becomes WMA File. Once I ripped it into my computer, I then tried to load it into songverter as a WMA Audio file and needed to convert to a WAV Audio file. Thats when I got the Bad File Log txt. My overall end result Im looking for is to have a WAV file. If you have another suggestion without using songverter I am open to it. However I would like to understand why this happens in Songverter. Thanks, Tony

I just tested this, it seems you must have the copy protect box ticked in Windows media player.
Go to rip settings/options in media player then select the rip music tab, under rip settings is a box for copy protect music, untick this box.
When this is ticked it prevents songverter converting it.

As you want the end result as a .wav file why don't you just rip it direct to a wav file from media player. You can select this option from the same dialog of media player. were you see the rip settings format window is a dropdown select wav from there, any changes you make in the dialog be sure to press apply & Ok.

[chuck bruck]

I'm not sure I have the right forum but I will try anyway. I have been running hoster for years and have a pretty good selection of songs. I reciently purchased some music from another person who is doing away with his karaoke player. He has a couple of thousand songs of which only about 20% are new to me. I have spent a lot of time deleting duplicates from my songs and I am wondering if there is some way to import his .KMA files without adding a bunch of duplicates into my songlists. (About 400 of his 1800 files are new to my songlists and I'd hate to have to go through all those songs and manually delete them.) If I must I will but can anyone suggest a way to add the songs to Hoster which will skip most of the dupes? Thanks in advance.

Chuck Bruck

[Roy Dennis]

If they are all in Hosters .kma format I think you will run into a lot of problems if you try just adding them to your database. Even if you sort out the ones that are named the same, the ones that are left would most likely have Book id the same as your existing.

The only way I can suggest is to convert all the kma files first to zip types or mp3+g using MTU's Songverter. You can demo it if you don't already have it.

other than that if you have all his music on CDG discs just import the ones you don't have as normal.

[chuck bruck]

I can add them to the database by importing them and the reindexing them, they seem to come out ok. I was just hoping there was a way to get them to delete duplicates of songs. ( same disk id and title ) I know it will work manually but it sure would be nice if I could do it some "automatic" way.
Thanks for your reply
Chuck

[Roy Dennis]

I would think that if you tried copying a folder of kma files in windows explorer to your kma folder, normally windows will bring up a dialog with 3 options in it if it finds a duplicate named file.
Copt & Replace
Don't Copy
Copy but keep both files
There is also a tick box at the bottom, "Do this for the next xxx conflicts"

If you tick that box and select the "Don't Copy" option then it will only copy the ones that don't match.

The trouble is those kma files will all have a book id allocated to them that is already used in your own kma files database, as soon as Hoster finds these it will probably tell you you have xxx duplicated files even though they are not duplicates by disc id or title artist but just because the book id are the same.
You will probably get an offer to merge them which will renumber all your book id's so if your not bothered about it renumbering all your songs you may get away with it. If you have your song books numbered with book id then they will probably all be wrong and need printing again.
If I was going to try this I think I would make a backup copy of all my song files first on a spare hard drive so that I could revert back to it if things go wrong.

[chuck bruck]

Never thought about copying the files using windows to delete the dupes. That might do the job. I'm not sure of the filenames but I will try that and see if I can get that to work.

P.S. I've already made backups of all directories "just in case"

Thanks again.

Chuck